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NEW: Homeland: A Novel by Paul William Roberts

The novel portrays a bleak dystopian future and chronicles the sequence of events that created it. Firmly grounded in the reality of our real present and past, on which it sheds new and controversial light, Paul William Roberts' depiction of our future in Homeland is all the more deeply disturbing for being all too possible.

THE CULPRITS ARE ALL DEAD NOW. I AM THE ONLY ONE LEFT ALIVE.

The year is 2050. The US is by now a global empire, sealed off from an outside world that has been reduced to a series of wars against several Chinese factions. America is little more than a wasteland. The great cities have disintegrated into memories of a bygone glory. New York has become a tourist haunt and theme park. Washington is the hub for central command operations, and only those on official business ever visit the capital. The President and Vice President, along with the Secretaries of State and Defense, are no longer identified for reasons of national security. There is no sense of the past. History, as we know it, ceases to exist.

It is in this grim and terrifying landscape that we find David Leverett, a former government advisor and architect of America's twentieth century postwar foreign policy. Having just reached his one hundredth birthday, Leverett confronts his past, chronicling his role in the evolution of the American Empire, from the end of the Carter era, to the glory years of the Reagan administration, and finally to the solidification of America's foreign policy of world domination under the influence of corporations, think tanks and lobbies of the two Bush administrations. Both a testament to and a lament for the country he served, Leverett exposes the backroom politics and players that engineered the destruction of the United States and its rebirth as US–Global, a paranoid super-state and scientific dictatorship with no known center of power.

Bestselling author Paul William Roberts draws on real events and real people, chronicling humanity's trek toward a dystopian future under the influence of a corrupt American empire. Sweeping in scope and controversial in subject matter, Homeland is Roberts' deeply disturbing vision of the world to come.

Paul spent four months in Iraq during and after the war in 2003. He wrote about what he found there in his heart-breaking book, "A War Against Truth," which was published by Raincoast Books. It's available at amazon.ca, Chapters/Indigo online and in bookstores now. The first chapter can be read on the Globe and Mail's website.

A War Against Truth was one of four finalists for the Charles Taylor Prize for best nonfiction book of the year.

"Despite the bitter humor and riveting eyewitness accounts of the Iraq tragedies, a serious reading of this lacerating account of the crimes and the lives of the victims is about as enjoyable as ripping off scabs. But it is so vivid and compelling that it is impossible to put it down. Reading it is not only painful, but also as necessary as opening one's eyes in the morning, for those who want to perceive the world as it is and to do something about it."
-- Noam Chomsky on A WAR AGAINST TRUTH

In 1997, Paul wrote "The Demonic Comedy," a narrative of his many previous trips to Iraq -- including one to Baghdad during the bombing of the city during the 1991 Gulf War -- and a dissection of the complex politics and culture of this tragic and fascinating part of the world.

Number of civilians killed since the war in Iraq began in 2003:
Iraq Body Count Site

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